Chapter 241: Chapter 240: Far South Continent, King of the Black Marsh
CRACKLE.
The gray wall stretching from heaven to earth suddenly tore apart!
An upraised ram, glowing with a blackish-red light, burst forth from the breach!
Then came the bow, the hull, the sails...
HUMMM!
The entire Ghostly Flood Dragon appeared in this stretch of ocean!
The waters of the New Continent!
"Haaaah..."
On deck, Su Ye let out a long breath.
Within his jet-black eyes, a magnificent, deep blue glow slowly dimmed.
By using an exclusive skill of the Pastor of the Sea to call upon the ocean’s spiritual nature for aid, he had broken through the gray wall.
And so, Su Ye had managed to pilot the Ghostly Flood Dragon to the waters of the new continent...
’Or perhaps, a world?’
Su Ye glanced back at the ’gray wall’.
WHOOSH.
A gust of wind stirred the mists.
Countless streams of gray-white mist surged and roiled, filling in and sealing the passage Su Ye had carved open.
Su Ye’s eyes narrowed. ’As expected of the Boundary Wall Remains. A self-healing ability like a living creature’s... even a fourth-tier Array would have trouble matching it.’
’Fortunately, its closing doesn’t really affect me.’
Su Ye was not worried.
According to Marina’s memories and what he could perceive with his own Divine Sense...
Compared to the barrier it presented from the outside, the ’gray wall’s’ isolating power from within was incredibly weak—so much so that Su Ye could practically ignore it.
In other words, Su Ye could return whenever he pleased.
’Just as I assessed. It’s an "easy out, difficult in" type of restriction.’
’Which fits the purpose of a Boundary Wall: to defend against outside threats...’
He set his thoughts aside.
Su Ye turned and looked into the distance. The silhouette of the ’Godly Continent’ was faintly visible!
At the ship’s bow, Marina gazed at the Godly Continent, her expression dazed.
...
Out of caution, the Ghostly Flood Dragon didn’t transform or use reverse Primordial Magnetism to fly.
Even so, relying on the power of its sails and the millions of living souls supporting its hull, the Ghostly Flood Dragon’s speed was by no means slow.
In an hour, it reached the shore.
With a light tap of his feet, Su Ye was gone in a flash of light, landing on solid ground.
A moment later, feeling a sudden impulse, he spoke as if guided by an unseen force.
"I hereby declare this continent’s name to be—the Far South Continent!"
The moment his voice fell.
Instantly.
Su Ye felt a sudden jolt in his soul!
With his keen senses, Su Ye could perceive that in that very instant, the world around him had undergone a subtle yet profound transformation.
It was as if a magnificent, brand-new scroll had been laid over the original, which was mottled and dim.
HUMMM!
Su Ye’s gaze went vacant, as if he were in a trance.
He was immersed in the magnificent splendor of the new scroll!
Within his Dantian Qi Sea, inside his Magic Power Crystal, all four of his divine seeds burst with spiritual light, overflowing with Dao essence.
In that single instant, the degree to which his four divine seeds had been nurtured increased significantly!
"Haaaah..."
After a long while, Su Ye returned to his senses.
Sensing the change in his divine seeds, his eyes flashed, and he murmured.
’Celestial Dao...’ Su Ye mused.
Just now.
The moment Su Ye set foot on the new continent and gave it a name.
The rules of the Immortal Dao world had swept in like a tide, eroding, covering, and annexing the local rules within this small piece of land.
And during this process, in the transition between old and new, countless mysteries of the Celestial Dao overflowed!
These mysteries of the Celestial Dao were profound and unfathomable.
A cultivator of the old methods would need to form a True Method Golden Core or reach the Nascent Soul Realm to even begin to comprehend them...
But cultivators of the modern method, who practice the Crystal Skill, generate divine seeds within their bodies!
These Divine Technique seeds are natural conglomerates of rules, leaves from the tree of the Great Dao... Even if Su Ye didn’t understand what was happening, they would spontaneously absorb the Power of Rules akin to them!
Thus, allowing Su Ye to benefit greatly!
If Su Ye’s previous process of comprehending the world to nurture his divine seeds was like him patiently working through a test...
...then what just happened was like someone placing the complete answer key right in front of him!
Even if it was just for an instant.
It was enough for Su Ye to memorize a few of the answers!
’Solving problems...’
’No, the nurturing progress of my divine seeds has increased significantly!’
’Is this the Celestial Dao’s reward?’
’Or is it bait to entice cultivators into expanding Its territory?’
’You’re actually pretty nice, aren’t you...’
Su Ye laughed in spite of himself.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up.
’Huh?’
’Wait, it seems I can... collect two rewards?’
A light-blue information panel materialized before his eyes.
[Discovered a New Continent. Pastor of the Sea EXP +10,000]
Discovering the new continent had given Su Ye ten thousand experience points!
Ten thousand experience points!
That was as much experience as killing three Demon Kings!
This was the most experience Su Ye had ever gained at one time!
’What a pleasant surprise.’
’An increase in my divine seeds’ nurturing, plus ten thousand experience points...’
It could be said that just from these two rewards gained the moment he set foot on the new continent...
...the manpower and resources Su Ye had previously invested in this expedition had already paid for themselves!
This made Su Ye all the more expectant.
"Far South Continent!"
...
A putrid swamp.
The trees were gray and blighted, their branches and leaves withered. The stagnant water of the wetland was a blackish-green, exuding a rotten stench.
One didn’t need Divine Sense to know...
...that the stagnant water was teeming with poisonous insects, as well as toxins and swamp gas that had built up over many years.
Forget mortals—even a Qi Refining cultivator would fall gravely ill after drinking this water, if not die outright.
BZZZZZZZ!
Huge, cloud-like swarms of poisonous mosquitoes buzzed irritably.
SWISH.
A flash of azure spiritual light, a surge of cold intent.
The swarm of mosquitoes froze mid-air, and in the next instant, they turned into tiny ice pellets and rained down from the sky.
"Such a harsh environment..." Su Ye shook his head.
"This foul swamp is where the city-state exiles its criminals."
"Priests who commit offenses are exiled here. For greater crimes, they are banished to the sea..."
Marina gave a bitter smile. She had been guilty of a ’greater crime’—losing a political struggle.
This time, to avoid attracting attention, Su Ye had only brought a few attendants—just a handful of his cursed crew members.
However, he still brought Marina along.
Su Ye had already acquired her memories, but her identity as a former temple Priest was still of some value.
WHOOSH!
The group moved through the swamp as if walking on wind, skimming across the wetlands at a rapid pace.
"My Lord, please be careful. The lair of the ’King of the Black Marsh’ is just ahead."
"This giant crocodile has lived for several hundred years. It’s considered a quasi-third-tier demonic beast and has an agreement with the city-state to guard this foul swamp..."
Marina reminded him.
Even though she knew Su Ye was already aware of this, she felt she had to say it... it was a matter of showing the proper attitude.
As someone who had surrendered, her standing was questionable, and she had to be careful about everything.
But, Su Ye’s Divine Sense stirred.
Then, he shook his head. "There’s no need to be on alert."
He walked forward.
The dense trees parted, revealing a wide stretch of swampy wetland.
A massive, pitch-black crocodile, dozens of meters long, lay in the toxic water, its life-aura completely gone.
Its head had been pierced by a blood-colored wooden spear, leaving a gaping hole from which a mixture of red and white matter flowed. Swarms of flies and mosquitoes gathered around it, drawn by the stench of decay.
It had been dead for a long time.
"This..." Marina was astonished.
